Dance After Dark Photography

Yegads. A day or three ago, I saw some of the most amazing clouds in the sky. It was the only day in about a two week period that I’d left my camera at home. By the time I fought through traffic and got home, the clouds had dissipated considerably. I was discouraged because I knew what I’d already missed, so I convinced myself that I was too tired to head back out with the camera.

This morning as I was driving home I saw something entirely new to me. There were (still are) heavy stormclouds to the east, and the sun shining from behind one particularly huge cloud hit some wispy vapor and created a miniature swirly rainbow. It had very delicate, almost iridescent bands in shades of red, green, and blue. The rainbow effect disappeared in the ten minutes or so it took me to edge past Fairbanks on Hwy 17-92. With my 70-300mm balanced against the car door, I could have caught that perfectly. I’d have to shut the car off so the engine vibration wouldn’t spoil the photo, but I sure as hell wasn’t going anywhere anyway.

Note to self:
Stop leavin’ your friggin’ camera at home! Damnit!

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